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Cartoon Guide to Federal Spectrum Policy

Posted by timothy on from the appropriate-medium dept.

js7a writes "The New America Foundation has published The Cartoon Guide to Federal Spectrum Policy (pdf). An excellent 14 page guide that everyone should print a few copies of to have handy in the backpack or car. Learn what would happen if the government regulated speech the same way they regulate airwaves. Learn the truth about microbroadcasting, smart radio, and so-called intererence (all previously covered on Slashdot.) Learn more creative ways to tell Congress to stop giving away public resources to private corporations. Make the most of your rights to use unlicensed wireless, before it's too late."

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  1. Is it just me or... by Roland+Piquepaille · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...this pdf looks like a japanese VCR user's manual?

    1. Re:Is it just me or... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't know, but my VCRs never contain anti-govermental/pro-anarchistic propaganda. Would be fun though.

      "This VCR uses the Betamax system. Rebel against VHS! Dispose of the false standards corporationalism has forced upon us! Revolt! FREE YOURSELF! Not for children under the age of 6."

  2. Re:Cartoon rights guides == great by Roland+Piquepaille · · Score: 5, Funny

    This sort of thing is the best way to get something through to the public. What's more likely to get people interested: pages of plain text or a comic strip?

    Thank you. I'll remember your post next time I try to explain to someone why the education system isn't doing its job...

  3. Cartoon Guide, eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds like they are finally reaching out to Dubya!

  4. Re:How about Italy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    One example the article gave was a 24 hour Hare Krishna station broadcasting nothing but chanting 24 hours a day.

    No, that was actually a Bush Presidential Address regarding the Iraqi war.

  5. Re:Cartoon rights guides == great by Jerf · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll remember your post next time I try to explain to someone why the education system isn't doing its job...

    I doubt it. His post wasn't in cartoon form.

  6. Re:Ok well by RollingThunder · · Score: 2, Funny

    spews noise with 2000 watts of power through a massive antenna
    That's why God invented the straight pin.

    Stick one of those through your cable and watch the circuits fry.

    Ah, the days of CB radio "wars". Good times, good times.

  7. Interesting taste by Scott+Richter · · Score: 3, Funny
    One example the article gave was a 24 hour Hare Krishna station broadcasting nothing but chanting 24 hours a day. I've long wished that the same rights were available in the U.S.

    I bet people don't borrow your CDs much

  8. Re:Dumbing down the level of intellectual discours by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You talk about how dumbing down the level of intellectual discourse is a bad thing, and then you go on to quote Homer Simpson?

    Ok there, buddy...